Aditya Bawankule
EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering
Graduation date: May 2021
GPA: 3.42/4.00
Naperville Central High School
Honors Student
May 2017
EXPERIENCE
Project Manager, Student Space Systems at UIUC, Present
- Manages the High Altitude Balloon avionics project
Summer internship, MSCTek, Summer 2016
- Interned with MSCTek creating cross-platform apps in Xamarin using C#
Robotics club Captain and Lead Programmer, Naperville Central RoboHawks, Aug 2013 – 2017
- Led team to semifinals thrice in VEX robotics regional tournament, competed at IL state in 2015
- Finalist at Regionals, Jan, 1st place Regionals February, 8th place IL State 2016
- Setup GitHub Organization to improve collaboration and educated team on usage
Team Lead, HackIllinois, Feb 2018
- Created an open source toolkit to help create educational experiences in Virtual Reality
- Won Walking your Dog Food to Market prize for best commercial viability of open source project from title sponsor Fulcrum GT
Team Lead, OpenBuild: LACUNA, September 2015
- Designed and coded Smart Systems to react to musicians movements
Team lead, Cisco Hackathon, September 2014
- Designed and coded ‘Internet of Things’ system to alert garbage companies when dumpsters were filled up; held at 1871 entrepreneurial hub for digital start-ups in Chicago, IL
Android App Developer, Google Play Store Present
- Developed four virtual reality apps, a FPS, and a platformer that are available in Google Play store for Android
Youtuber, https://www.youtube.com/user/legorobotdude/
- Runs a gaming YouTube channel with 300+ subscribers 2009 – present
SKILLS
Programming Languages: Java, Python, C#, RobotC, LC3
Proficient in: Arduino IDE, Unity GameEngine, WordPress
Hands on experience with technical systems
- Experience with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, IOT devices
- Created several WordPress-based websites
- Built and raced quadcopter
- Built and programmed autonomous/driver controlled robots for robotics club
- Created Virtual Reality apps for Google Cardboard and HTC Vive
- Created Augmented Reality apps for Android
- Designed and built Arduino based sensor and solar payload for weather balloon at IIT
- Built own computer
AWARDS
- Student of the Year 2017 award by the Computer Science department of NCHS
- Fourth place State Champion at Skills USA Electronics Competition 2015
- Third place State Champion at Skills USA Robotics Competition 2016
- National Merit Commended Student 2017
- Illinois State Scholar 2017